Words of Inspiration from Jan Karon
April 29, 2008I was reading an article in the May/June 2008 issue of Victoria Magazine http://www.victoriamag.com about writer Jan Karon. For those of you who may not be familiar with her, she wrote the “Mitford” series of novels. I discovered them when David was just a baby and I really enjoyed the stories about Fr. Tim, an Episcopal priest. She offered these words of inspiration which she had written in magic marker on the wall of her writing room:
There are three stages in the work of God: Impossible. Difficult.
- James Hudson Taylor
Whatever you would do, begin it. Boldness has courage, genius and magic in it.
- Goethe
I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.
- Philippians 4:13
- Patrice Fagnant-MacArthur
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Jan Karon and the Mitford series are some of my personal favorites. Clever, witty, beautifully crafted stories with three-dimensional characters we come to know and love thru the series. Poignant, humorous, heartwarming and upliftingl.
“Patches of Godlight – Father Tim’s Favorite Quotes” is wonderful. Karon also has a terrific cookbook out, “The Mitford Cookbook and Kitchen Reader,” which contains some material not published in the novels.